And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Parallel translations
- WEB The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- BSB And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- NKJV And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward, And bear fruit upward.
- NASB The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
- NLT And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the siege, will put roots down in your own soil and will grow up and flourish.
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Quick answer
The surviving remnant of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. God promises renewed life and growth for his preserved people.
Overview
The agricultural image of roots and fruit symbolizes Judah's revival after the Assyrian threat. The 'remnant' motif assures that God preserves a people for himself through judgment. This rooted, fruitful growth pictures the spiritual flourishing God grants to those he saves. It points forward to the fruitful people of God gathered in Christ (John 15).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 27:6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
- 2 Kgs 19:4It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
- 2 Chr 32:22–23Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
- Isa 10:20–22And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
- Isa 1:9Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
- Isa 37:31–32And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
- Ps 80:9Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
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